We have arrived to the second project out of six of the Grad Dip course, week #6 (of 30). For this project we were assigned to explore London particularly in relation to ‘time’ and ‘space’.

We were assigned to do this project in pairs, which for my pairs, we have three so it’s a group. We are to choose an Underground Tube line and travel the city to explore sites, people, communities, histories, sensations and environments that ‘connects us to’.

We should document and interact with the city with various materials and processes such as sketching, photographing, collecting, filming, recording, writing, to also talking to people.

Especially for Communications pathway, our work should be able to clearly communicate the social, spatial and temporal relations of the site we are exploring. Our outcome should ‘engage with the nature of time and the use of time-based media’ which could be done through film, sound, performance, storytelling, etc. with clearly identified audience and how we communicate to them.

Today, we got a great opportunity to visit two cultaral sites in London which are the Museum of London and the Barbican.

Before entering the Museum of London, we were advised to ‘record the spaces, the journey or the experience’. We should ask what does it mean to us and write notes that aren’t just labels. I think that is more about ‘reflecting’ and being ‘critical’. The tutors talk a lot about ‘Think about…”

For thinking in terms of a Communicator, Matt advised us to response in ‘time-based’ manner. To document the walk and do it across the senses. He stresses about this is not about an object-based thinking but it is more of an abstract thinking which nothing is wrong. He also asked us to think about ‘what is at the edges of the places’, where can’t you get to and what can’t you see. These are very interesting points to consider I think.

I went in with my team member, June and then Ping Ping joined us too. I was really frustrated at first since I was so used to only documenting by sketching and writing labels but later I became a little bit accustomed to it.

Above is a map of interesting visuals inside the museum along with words in bubbles which are spoken words I heard during the drawing. The method was done this way because I would like to explore collapsing two senses (looking and listening) together. The drawings were started from above and then curved similarly like the number 4. All the little drawings were intently placed on one another to create a line of journey.

At first I felt strange producing something I’m not used to and asked why doing this? a lot, but at the end looking at it, I think it grows on me. It feels as if I’m looking into this world with new eyes and perspective which is something really useful in order to come up with new creative ideas. I’m thinking maybe do some animation out of this, possibly play with visual and sounds, to push it further into time-based execution.

Below are also photos of objects I found interesting, most of them has faces and characters. Thinking about time, it worths noticing that people have been associated with figurative representation since long time ago.

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In the afternoon, we went to the Barbican and we were asked to ‘record our experiences’ and this is what I’ve got from the walk.

In this drawing, I tried to experimented new way of documenting my journey. I drew a line of direction during the walk, draw any visuals that interest me and also jotted down words or phrases I heard at the area. I feel like, the less you expect or imagine the outcome, the more surprising and fresh the result would be.

Some Gifs of the ‘experience’ at the Barbican.

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